五美人図, Five Beauties, Edo period (1615–1868), 1840, Japan, Hanging scroll; ink and color on silk, Image: 15 3/8 × 20 3/4 in. (39

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五美人図, Five Beauties, Edo period (1615–1868), 1840, Japan, Hanging scroll; ink and color on silk, Image: 15 3/8 × 20 3/4 in. ( × cm), Paintings, Teisai Hokuba (Japanese, 1771–1844), The two women on the left play a hand-gesture game called kitsune-ken (fox fists) in which gestures representing a supernatural fox (kitsune) defeat those of a village head (shōya), who defeats a hunter (ryōshi), who in turn defeats the fox

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Size: 5200px × 3900px
Photo credit: © Artokoloro / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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